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Mixed Pork Porridge

Pork Congee (猪肉粥)

Posted on May 7, 2009December 28, 2022 by PatriCa BB 雪冰

Pork Porridge

“Hearty congee (or called it porridge) meal that warms the heart of your loved ones”

Porridge wasn’t limited to only oatmeal or cereal in liquid. Chinese congee, savory thick rice porridge had been so well-liked by Asians for centuries.

I had fresh lettuce served with my congee. This was inspired by the congee meal I had in Hong Kong. I loved the idea of having fresh crunchy lettuce as it added different texture to this meaty congee meal, making a good balance. Good garnishing not just for decorating, it relishes the congee, too. Serve it nicely, and then, mix it all up before digging in, you’ll discover the pleasure of savouring such delicious and hearty Cantonese-style congee once in a while (smile).

Pork Porridge

Cantonese congee often pairs with fried fritters (fried dough sticks – 油条) that savours marvelous experience of having a congee meal. I loved it so much!

I cooked pork congee last evening as I felt like having some hot liquid meal as dinner. I always liked to cook with pig assortments (猪什) to offer more varieties in my congee. But to cook it simpler and quicker this time, I cooked with only the pork meat and added pig’s liver as an extra to the pork congee (猪肝肉粥).

Serves 3-4
Ingredients
200 gram of lean shoulder butt pork meat, thinly sliced
100 gram minced pork meat
50 gram pig’s liver, thinly sliced
6 – 8 pork meat balls
2 pieces of 20 cents big dried scallops (or a few tiny ones), steeped for 3 minutes
1 thin slice of ginger, about thumb size, cut into thick stripes
2 medium eggs

1 cup of long grain rice
6 – 7 cups of water (about 1500 – 1800ml)

1 teaspoon of salt
½ teaspoon of ground white pepper
Drops of sesame oil
Drops of light soy sauce

Seasoning (each for pork meat slices and minced meat respectively):
1 teaspoons of light soy sauce x 2
½ teaspoon of rice wine x 2
Sprinkle of ground white pepper x 2
Pinch of sugar x 2
2 teaspoons of corn starch x 2
** x2 refers to prepare two portions, one portion each for marinating pork meat slices AND minced mea

Garnishing
½ teaspoon of fried shallots
Fresh lettuce, julienned

Optional:
1 pair of fried fritters, cut into bite size crosswise

Method:
1) Marinate pork meat slices and minced pork meat (separately) with seasoning, for 15 minutes. Keep refrigerated while marinating. Then, blanch pig’s liver slices with boiling water for 30 seconds, or till it’s half done. Drain and reserve for later.

2) To make congee: Rinse rice, place rice and water in a large pot. Bring pot to a boil over high heat. Add chicken stock (or cube), dried scallops and ginger, bring it to another boil before lowering heat to small fire, and simmer for 20 minutes. While simmering, you have to stir it continuously till rice breaks down and liquid slightly thicken.

3) Add pork meat ball and meat slices, and continue to stir. Add some water occasionally if porridge is getting too thick before it’s formed (thicken and smoothed). Add in minced meat (make into balls or have it mixed loosely in the pot). Then, add sesame oil, salt and pepper. Adjust amount of seasoning to your taste. Stir and simmer for another 10 minutes.

4) Add in blanched pig’s liver, 1 minute of heat off. Immediately after heat off, add raw eggs and few drops of light soy sauce into the pot and stir vigorously to mix eggs with congee well. Cover pot with lid for 1 minuted before serving. Laddle into bolw(s), garnish and serve hot with fried fritters.

A bowl of my pork congee counts about 250kcal. With some fried fritters, counts added another 50- 80kcal.

Tips: Right consistency of successful congee should be fairly smooth, light gluey with enough moisture. To achieve smooth consistency, rice has to be softened till completely emerged with the liquid by stirring it continuously (and mashing the softened rice grain to break it down with ladle occasionally) when simmering. Add water to lighten the texture, if you find some resistance to your stirring.
* It’s ok if you don’t like pig’s liver. Opt it out.

Tags: FeaturedPorkPorridge
Category: 1-dish MealRecipeRice & Noodles

10 thoughts on “Pork Congee (猪肉粥)”

  1. lensgypsy says:
    May 28, 2009 at 1:29 am

    Hey, why do you put “1 teaspoon so-&-so..” and then x 2? Am I missing something here?

    Reply
  2. PatriCa BB says:
    May 28, 2009 at 1:07 pm

    Hi Lensgypsy,

    Thanks for your interest in this recipe.

    I simply meant to prepare two portion of each seasoning ingredient. One portion to be used to marinate meat slices, and one more portion to be used to marinate the minced pork, so that both pork meat ingredients are well marinated.

    Hope this clears your doubt.

    Reply
  3. Tricy says:
    March 18, 2010 at 9:49 am

    Hi, I would like to know roughly the size of the bowl for 250 calories. Could you provide me with the measurements of your bowl of porridge worthing 250kcal?

    Reply
  4. PatriCa BB says:
    March 18, 2010 at 4:26 pm

    Hi Tricy,

    Just regular bowl.. Slight bigger than rice bowl but smaller than those noodle bowls which we have noodles at outside stores.

    Reply
  5. asej says:
    June 26, 2010 at 11:23 pm

    try to garnish with cilantro and fried peanut, taste superb!

    Reply
  6. PatriCa BB says:
    June 27, 2010 at 12:05 am

    Hi Asej,

    I agreed! Anything which is fried and crisped, will be good on the porridge.. In fact, I am going to use cilantro to cook fish fillet someday..

    Reply
  7. PatriCa BB says:
    December 12, 2011 at 3:41 pm

    A typo error was found by a reader in this post. “Dried scallop to be steeped (or soaked) for 3 minutes.” It’s never meant “socked”.

    Apologise for the typo error.

    And, thank you, Karen, for informing me this.

    For sure, she is smart enough to know that, for sure, a typo error. Thank her for her ‘free’ proofreading service… If I were to publish a cookbook, no worries, there would surely be someone professional hired to proofread and edit every post for me. :D

    In the meantime, please continue the free service. I do appreciate it. :)

    Reply
  8. Jaren says:
    July 3, 2012 at 11:32 pm

    hey thank you so much for the recipe! im now in london and some home cooked chinese food would definitely help =)

    i tried cooking this earlier but the porridge smell really good but tasted rather tasteless, what could i do to flavour it up?

    Reply
  9. PatriCa BB says:
    July 4, 2012 at 9:19 am

    Hi Jaren,

    Did you use chicken stock or chicken cubes?
    Enough salt in it? There are several ways to add flavour, add chicken cubes (or granules), if you did not. Add more salt. Or, after cooked and served in a bowl, drizzle light soy sauce and peper on the porridge.
    Add eggs into your porridge creates even better taste. You do not need to cook the eggs with extra time (unless you have problem eating non-fully cooked egg), simply add the eggs in once heat off, using the remaining heat to cook the eggs. Remember to stir it well to combine eggs with the porridge once added.

    Hope this helps.

    .

    Reply
  10. YASUA says:
    July 10, 2020 at 6:00 am

    Amazing website and Delicious recipes

    Reply

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